Thailand’s Unemployed Elephants Are Back Home, Huge and Hungry When the tourists who rode them disappeared from resort destinations, Thailand’s captive elephants, and their owners, went back to their birth villages, where finding enough food has been a struggle.
Cockatoos Know How to Pick the Right Tools for the Job The job, in these experiments, was getting a cashew out of a puzzle box.
Dolphins Can Shout Underwater, but It’s Never Loud Enough Researchers found that dolphins confronted with noise increase the volume and duration of their calls to one another but struggle to cooperate.
These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea. The pursuit of robot consciousness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.